the headlines in r.t. this hour the u.k. requests access the former u.s. marine charged in moscow with espionage the speculation claims the man is being used as a bargaining chip by russia. also to come a massive cyber attack in germany seize the private data of hundreds of politicians and media figures leaked online with some already pointing the blame for russia and donald trump. to veto any legislation passed by the democrats after they refused to fund his ball neither side shows any sign of giving in despite. government shutdown . and you all isn't a morality it's not who we are is a nation i have never had so much support for border control and for

frankly the wall or the barrier. good evening is just gone six pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story this hour british diplomats have requested access to the suspected u.s. spy paul whelan who is currently being held in a moscow jail that after it was confirmed the man detained in the russian capital last week has a u.k. passport as well as an american one much of the media meanwhile have already developed their own theories about the arrest well i discuss the story with our correspondents both here in moscow and in london. what more do we know then about this case andrew haven't we lately really gotten used to hearing about russian spies in america i can definitely come up with a few such stories from the past few years this time though the case is exactly the

opposite an american as we initially found out was arrested in moscow in one of the city's most posh hotels we eventually found out that paul whelan former u.s. marine is also a british citizen and that he's got a canadian passport to the canadian bibble that's worth saying so however his brother couldn't confirm that it sounds rather strange but that's the way it is anyway he's now in detention in moscow having been charged with espionage although his brother says that the only reason he went to russia was to attend a friend's wedding party the us ambassador had been given permission to see the suspect and so he did mr whelan's lawyer is seeking bail for his client for now we aren't really aware of any other details but journalists all

around the world are talking about it and speculation is rife he faces up to twenty years in a russian jail deal of masks plenty of time to be small to dispose of. what's most likely as we'll as a pawn in russia just play to get back one of its spies after maria patino here in the united states in the rehab boots and do you believe the arrest of your brother was retaliation and was revenge in some way by the russians. as you've heard many are linking this case to the case of variability no who was arrested in the u.s. in july she eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring against the u.s. with a russian government official and at least another person without notifying the u.s. attorney general but the fact is that the charges that have been brought against paul whelan and maria butanol are completely different now to london to dispute and

see the children and our correspondent there nasty we're hearing the poor will and also is a british citizen must be in the reaction then in the u.k. it was actually the american embassy in moscow that had contacted their british counterparts to inform them of this arrest and this case we know that so far the foreign office has their spokesperson has said that quote staff have requested consular access to a british man detained in russia after receiving a request for assistance also the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt has said this case is obviously being watched very closely and he has said that the u.k. is not liking the idea of individuals being used for political chess games our position is very very clear individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage we need to see what those charges are against him to understand whether there is a case or not we're not ruling out any theories tool at this stage as to why this

might have happened this case of paul whelan comes on the heels of the biggest scandals in twenty eighteen between russia and the u.k. involving a double agent being poisoned in seoul's very in the u.k. back in march leading to diplomatic expulsions leading to one of the biggest droughts between the u.k. and russia and russia in recent years so whether or not this one is again going to add more fuel to the fire. and exactly how much this scandal blows up of course remains to be seen in the days to come. an investigation is underway in germany into a massive cyber attack there which led to the personal data of hundreds of german politicians and media figures being leaked online while the probe is in its early stages though some german media outlets already claim to know who is to blame peter all of picks up a story. but german press are running hard with this story on the data of hundreds

of politicians and includes members of the cabinet here in germany chancellor angela merkel herself. the president of germany frank fall to steinmeyer among many many others but it's not just politicians that have been the victim of this said this data breach also comedian younes bottom and and rapper mark teddy are also caught up in this now because if there is talk of hacking and data breaches the knives immediately come out for russia and that is what's happened in a lot of the articles we've seen here so far what we do know about the data that had been hacked into is that it's being called non highly sensitive data it includes things from the politicians this is like job applications party memos and lists of party members now a spokesperson for the german government said an investigation is underway into this hack even to sleep young the federal government is taking this very seriously the only thing we can say about the hack attack now is that we're working on that

as the thirty's are working very hard to understand what happened looks like this has to be handled with great care and figures fake information can be propagated however the government can say that now sensitive political data was published so far no official claims that russia was behind this and no evidence presented to that end but this isn't the first time that we've see a big media campaign in germany pointing the finger of blame at russia when it comes to online shenanigans before the twenty seventeen elections the papers were rife with how were the russians going to interfere with our elections post the twenty seventeen elections there was a lot more navel gazing article saying why didn't russia try and hack or interfere in these elections as we heard from the spokesman person from the government there this investigation ongoing we'll be looking into this as it develops. now with the u.s. government shutdown close to entering its third week democrats have pushed forward legislation designed to end the stalemate the democrat controlled house of

representatives passed two bills to fund the federal government but they don't include funding for a border wall prompting donald trump to claim he will veto the legislation or senior democrats claim such a wall would be un-american the president does say his idea still has widespread support but y'all isn't a morality it's not who we are is a nation and this is not a war between mexico and the united states that the president is creating here it's a wall between reality and his constituents his supporters i have never had so much support as i have in the lairs week over my stance for border security for border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier well to hammer home his stance that donald trump took to instagram posting this statement of intent and he also posted the following video.

you legal immigration is wrong plain and simple. was. and standoff over that wall looks set to intensify to with a democrat funding bills now heading to the republican controlled senate where they are likely to face hostility we discuss the border wall issue with ned ryan he's from the conservative group american majority and also with robert patillo he's a civil rights lawyer. well also understand the president has absolutely no no leverage in this situation he's already made his position position clear they should negotiate this last february during the last government shutdown there there's no reason for nancy pelosi to move on this unless the president is willing

to make a deal on daca make a deal on comprehensive immigration reform basically meant to close it has him bent over heard me right now she can demand whatever she wants we're a minimal amount of wall funding there's no leverage to present hale's donald trump cannot back down on this i mean his base is expecting him to fulfill this major campaign promise and i know it doesn't seem like a lot of money i think we're not even really talking about the money because five point six billion in a four trillion annual budget doesn't really mean much at all so this is really a showdown between his trunk going to get his wall or democrats going to deny him that and also you know at a certain point we have to acknowledge the left base inside a democratic party does not want to see a secure border is more favorable towards open borders and not really fixing our immigration policy so i think if they want the wall that should be telling the president to do is bring back the chuck schumer legislation from two thousand and thirteen that passed the senate sixty eight votes to thirty two votes in the house republicans killed there could have been a border wall for the last five years of looking for the freedom caucus and some of the extremists in the republican party not supporting it so for the current wall

what we need to see the c.b.l. score for was actually wall will say that's what we need to see as a funding mechanism so we know exactly how that actually this is being paid for and we need a concrete and universal comprehensive plan on immigration reform not simply say we're going to stick still slate's and in the desert that's going to probably need a real plan for this a lot of trunk space is willing to compromise we understand that these daca these dreamers they did not come here they were brought here they did not come of their own volition we understand that there's a situation and i think that you would be really surprised if you were to talk a lot of time space they understand there has to be some legal status maybe even potentially a path to citizenship i think people are willing to negotiate but on the same time if there is not funding for a wall in return for. the citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation in this at some point we all know that politics is the art of compromise we have to actually get to a point of compromise donald trump instead here is my non-negotiable there to pause

you have to come up with something that says what will give you that in exchange for this and i think there is a path i got to tell you though they do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major kira pain promises. the first funeral is underway for the victims of the deadly building explosion in the russian city of magnitogorsk the search and rescue operation did come to an end on thursday after the last body was recovered from the site in total the disaster claimed thirty nine lives we did manage though to speak to one of the survivors of the explosion he shared the story of his escape exclusively with r.t. . we were caught up by a loud noise and at first i couldn't walk out what had happened i told my family to get dressed and grab the documents i went to open the door that was confronted by nothing just this drop in my smoke and fire.

there were four of us and we also met our neighbors everyone was in total shock we managed to escape by climbing from a balcony to that of another flat. when we got out onto the street all the images the services had already arrived it took them about fifteen minutes to get that they were already helping people. may my wife are holding up the most important thing is that we've survived our children were traumatised they will need counselling i'm very grateful to the people of magnesium for their support and to the emergency services. rushing out international back with more news just after the break.

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welcome back now the tech giant apple has accused donald trump of hurting its business in china with the trade war he's waging against beijing u.s. stock markets have been a sea of red after apple issued a profit warning for the first time in sixteen years the president himself though insists his terrorists are actually helping america with more details his down bush . what happened wall street's the world's first ever truly in dollar firm just moments after that historic milestone the i pad make issues the. in the mine

shaft the most nail biting announcement the chilling profit warning the first official public admission that a company's to announce bad news within minutes of the new york markets opening on thursday apple sixty four billion dollars of its value enough to replace every i phone cracked screen in the world investors now want the head of apple boss tim cook all right so you're saying that tell me. what cook blame someone else trumps trade war with china we believe the economic environment in china has been further impacted by rising trade tensions with the united states or the donald. slapped painful tariffs on imports from the communist superpower beijing swung back imposing or proposing tolls on most american imports from all imax to cause so our pools not the only u.s. multinational i call punning the trade crossfire between the world's top two economies but the dollar will remain strangely cool in fact he's glowing the united

states treasury has taken in many billions of dollars from the tariffs which are going china and other countries that have not treated us fairly in the meantime we're doing well in various trade negotiations currently going on at some point this had to be done just one day off the apples profit warning sends shock waves through us think he tweets his tariff hikes bring in billions to the u.s. purse so the trade was hurting or hoping there's definitely bring in this money but it's not bringing them from foreign governments it's bringing it and from american businesses and american consumers which is to say that it is a tax and taxes are not good for economic growth and he began this whole trade conflict same trade wars are great they're easy to and they will boost growth so everything the opposite has happened and we haven't won is increase in television from around the world and now we're seeing how it's profoundly affecting even tech

companies as you can see from apple's sales in china this is a direct consequence of the trade wars but it's not just china that's felt the burden of policies in twenty eighteen presidents terrorists have also heard some american ally staying as artie's moderate gas the f. explains. two thousand and eighteen hasn't been easy in america oh no it was a rough rough year friends came friends went more went really then came and those that weren't friends in the first place well they've lost all fear. bullying enemy yesterday saddam was in front of us today it's trump there is no difference we must resist and we. have to see the grim ill supremacist of this move those who govern the united states. countries shouldn't just point fingers at the others but ignore their own mistakes this shouldn't be the

torchlight doing nothing but exposing the weakness of others while ignoring their own come no surprise those countries weren't all that buddy buddy with america to begin with but us allies friends that's another story without a happy ending take trump's little vendetta against iran where he top nuclear deal with it deal the took his allies europeans years of efforts negotiations sweat and nerves trump is now threatening his own allies if they there break his blockade against iran no one trades with iran he insists that the europeans playing ball. will put to work as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we know me to act we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans and

this case to decide with home to trade with. take also trumps advice to germany lately sort of bullying really with regards to russian gas pipelines germany will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately change course nothing complicated here merica cannot compete with much cheaper russian gas but if you get rid of russian gas pipelines. europeans trump's allies will have no choice but to overpay for american gas well it's better than taking advantage of your friends problem is germany isn't that good we can't rely on the superpower of the united states neither is

nato immune to trump's charms huge smalling out this year between turkey and the states and her wanting to buy russian anti air missiles and trump trump didn't like that one bit we have had serious concerns about turkey's potential acquisition of the ass four hundred system so this is turkey's decision we made a deal on the s four hundred that file is closed it is closed business trumps gung ho attitude his speak first think later and then change your mind style has undeniably pushed away friends or shove them away made enemies it's getting harder to bully coerce and strong arm your way around shining example as what's happening at the un or rather what isn't happening in the us getting its way q more threats the american people pay twenty two percent of the un budget more than the

next three highs donor countries combined in spite of this generosity the rest of the un booted with us only thirty one percent of the time this is not an acceptable return on our investment president trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars are we serve american interests america's erratic behavior its tantrums costing it power influence friends even the famous bromance with french president micron is ending but it's more than that it's a new global trend where people nations are pretty sick. being ordered about told what to do regardless of what they think tired of trump tweeting about them two thousand and eighteen was hard on america trump made it so. against the of their will over the next few days we are looking back to see what

some of the stories we brought in twenty. and it will certainly have big news wasn't it but what was it like for the reporters reporting on it well the walls plenty of variety his attempts. to go for. now everything make. you. more of a public employee it's. a case to bases out from the public to

everything you possibly budget as they try and take away that will goes to the floor. this instrument near the border with north korea is a. really really close. to some of the most dangerous man in the world from the street. so to see. this sort of event that. you see. right now content coming to light now we. have gone from it's complicated to inhalation shall see what are you going to.

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still to show them to me. you know. i'm so. happy. you would say thanks for watching this evening we're back again with the headlines imo stories and thirty five. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in the small foolish the full of which if you had any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of them turkishness designed to put people in just that frame of

mind make them. comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were. sad i state that i would be all about that the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building

a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle as the media become unhinged in there of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word news cycle after news cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose are journalists now nothing more than ideological advocates.

in the media i'm joined by my guest charles or telling new york he is a private investor and a writer as well as host of the podcast show sunday with charles also in new york we have joe concha he is they were media reporter for the hill and in nashville we cross to roger simon he is an award winning novelist and academy award nominated screenwriter as well as co-founder and c.e.o. of america's p.j. media right gentlemen cross-like rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joe let me go to you first here i guess i can take the easiest example the dueling match we saw with jim acosta and president trump here i mean what is the state of journalism and i'm not let light letting either guy off the hook at least at this point here but what does that tell us about journalism today journalism today i would say has become

a matter of many more opinions being put into reporting which is leading to mistrust by viewers and by audiences and jim acosta is a good example of that jim openly debates the president on certain issues he takes a side and then decides to become the captain of the debate team during press briefings like we saw last week and eventually becomes a confrontation where after every press briefing whether it be with white house press secretary sarah sanders or with the president self the story becomes jim acosta and donald trump in terms of the confrontation and terms of actual information that made benefit the american people as far as what the president is doing his administration is doing so last week is a perfect example the president took sixty eight questions from thirty five reporters that's about an average of two per reporter for whatever reason mr costin felt he was entitled to ask for questions and when asked to give up a microphone when the president wanted to move on he held onto it like a three year old as a lollipop when you tell him that it's time to give up the candy so i think that's the state of journalism today where we have too many opinion.